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The Vancouver International Film Festival will feature 22 award-winning films, including one about an Iranian filmmaker masquerading as a Tehran cabbie (Jafar Panahi’s Taxi) and a dark comedy unfolding in the shadow of an abandoned Cuban nuclear reactor (The Project of the Century). From Berlin comes Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria, a bank heist thriller shot in a single two-hour take.

If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you might have noticed that wrinkles are in. Even in Hollywood, where the smooth tautness of one’s skin has long been directly related to the frequency of entertainment industry paycheques, we have seen of late many a big-screen role inhabited by the likes of well-worn old-timers Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Judi Dench, Sean Connery, Annette Bening, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Keaton and Anthony Hopkins.

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